53-589: Tanners may refer to: Tanners (company) , a British wine company Tanners, Virginia , an unincorporated community located in Madison County, United States Jerald and Sandra Tanner , opponents of the LDS Church (Mormons) Leatherhead F.C. , a football (soccer) club in Leatherhead, England a nickname for Peabody Veterans Memorial High School ,
106-480: A microclimate that is optimal for cultivation of olives , almonds , and especially grapes important for making port wine. The region around Pinhão and São João da Pesqueira is considered to be the centre of port production, and is known for its picturesque quintas – estates clinging on to almost vertical slopes dropping down to the river. The demarcation of the Douro River Valley includes
159-462: A Colheita may have spent 20 or more years in wooden barrels before being bottled and sold. White Colheitas have also been produced. Unusual and rare, vintage-dated Garrafeira combines the oxidative maturation of years in wood with further reductive maturation in large glass demijohns . It is required by the IVDP that wines spend some time in wood, usually between three and six years, followed by at least
212-399: A blend of several vintages. The target age profile, in years in wood, is stated on the label, usually 10, 20, 30, or 40 years. These ports are produced by most houses. It is also possible to produce an aged white port in this manner, with some shippers now marketing aged white ports. In some places, such as Canada and Australia, 'tawny' may also be used to describe any port-style wine that
265-697: A broad swath of land of pre- Cambrian schist and granite . Beginning around the village of Barqueiros (about 70 km (43 mi) upstream from Porto), the valley extends eastward almost to the Spanish border. The region is protected from the influences of the Atlantic Ocean by the Serra do Marão mountains. The area is subdivided into three official zones: the Baixo (lower) Corgo, the Cima (higher) Corgo, and
318-541: A cask for only a short time, they retain their dark ruby color and fresh fruit flavours. Particularly fine vintage ports can continue to gain complexity for many decades after they were bottled. It is not uncommon for 19th-century bottles to still be in perfect condition for consumption. The oldest known vintage port still available as of 2018 from a shipper is the 1815 Ferreira. A tasting in 1990 described it as having an "intensely spicy aroma – cinnamon, pepper, and ginger – hints of exotic woods, iodine, and wax". Vintage port
371-470: A commercial website. Approximately 60% of Tanners business is with hotels and restaurants and 40% with private clients and corporate customers. Lately, the business has been running events, which include supper clubs and lectured events, which have covered topics including: The buildings were used in 1984 for the filming of ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring George C Scott , Susannah York and David Warner because of their Dickensian appearance. Tanners
424-408: A few days. Recent bottlings are identified by the label "unfiltered", "bottle matured", or both. Since the 2002 regulations, bottles that carry the words "bottle matured" must have enjoyed at least three years of bottle maturation before release. Before 2002 this style was often marketed as "traditional", a description that is no longer permitted. Unfiltered LBV will usually be improved by extra years in
477-411: A further eight years in glass, before bottling. In practice, the times spent in glass are much longer. The style is associated with the company Niepoort, although others do exist. Their dark green demijohns, known as bon-bons, hold approximately 11 litres (2.4 imp gal; 2.9 US gal) each. Some connoisseurs describe Garrafeira as having a slight taste of bacon, the reason being that, during
530-757: A further four at Bridgnorth, Hereford, Llandudno and more recently, Chester . The Shrewsbury Cellars Shop was cited in Country Life magazine as one of the ‘ten most charming shops in Britain.’ The current chairman, James Tanner, is the fourth generation of the family to run the business. His father, Richard Tanner, High Sheriff of Shropshire in 2006, died on 1 January 2014. Tanners sells over two million bottles of wine every year from over 20 wine producing countries as well as several million pints of beer and soft drinks annually. The company specialises in fine French wines from Burgundy , Bordeaux and
583-484: A new style of white apéritif Port, in 1934. Made from traditional white grape varieties, it is fermented for longer than usual to give it a crisp dry finish. Late bottled vintage (often referred to simply as LBV) was originally wine that had been destined for bottling as vintage port, but because of lack of demand was left in the barrel for longer than had been planned. Over time it has become two distinct styles of wine, both of them bottled between four and six years after
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689-652: A result of this oxidation, they mellow to a golden-brown color. The exposure to oxygen imparts "nutty" flavours to the wine, which is blended to match the house style. They are sweet or medium dry and typically consumed as a dessert wine, but can also pair with a main course. When a port is described as tawny, without an indication of age, it is a basic blend of wood-aged port that has spent time in wooden barrels, typically at least three years. Reserve tawny port (produced by Borges, Calem, Croft, Cruz, Graham , Kopke, and other houses) has been aged about seven years. Above this are tawny with an indication of age, which represent
742-405: A single estate, unlike the standard bottlings of the port wine houses which can be sourced from a number of quintas. Single quinta bottlings are used in two ways by producers. Most of the large port wine houses have a single quinta bottling which is only produced in some years when the regular vintage port of the house is not declared. In those years, wine from their best quinta is still bottled under
795-634: A single vintage (usually being a blend of several vintages of the ruby) nor the typical character of vintage port. Rose port is a very recent variation on the market, first released in 2008 by Poças and by Croft, part of the Taylor Fladgate Partnership . It is technically a ruby port, but fermented in a similar manner to a rosé wine , with limited exposure to the grape skins, thus creating the rose color. Tawny ports are wines usually made from red grapes that are aged in wooden barrels exposing them to gradual oxidation and evaporation. As
848-409: A vintage designation, rather than being used for simpler port qualities. The term vintage has a distinct meaning in the context of vintage port. While vintage is simply the year in which a wine is made, most producers of vintage port restrict their production of year-labelled bottlings to only the best years, a few per decade. Contrast with second wines , where (primarily) Bordeaux producers release
901-418: A vintage is made by each individual port house often referred to as a "shipper". Much of the complex character of aged vintage port comes from the continued slow decomposition of grape solids in each bottle. These solids are undesirable when the port is consumed, and thus vintage port typically requires a period of settling before decanting and pouring. Single quinta vintage ports are wines that originate from
954-481: A wine that is slightly more viscous. The IVDP ( Instituto dos Vinhos do Douro e Porto ) further divides ports into two categories: normal ports (standard ruby, three-year-old tawny, and white) and Categorias Especiais , special categories, which include everything else. The most common type, ruby port is stored in tanks of concrete or stainless steel after fermentation, to prevent oxidative aging and preserve its bright red color and full-bodied fruitiness. The wine
1007-438: A year-labelled top wine almost every year, but also lesser quality wines in some years. If a port house decides that its wine is of a quality sufficient for a vintage, samples are sent to the IVDP for approval and the house declares the vintage. In very good years, almost all the port houses will declare their wines. In intermediate years, the producers of blended vintage ports will not declare their flagship port but may declare
1060-461: Is a family-owned independent wine merchants company based in Shrewsbury , Shropshire , England. Tanners was established by William Tanner, a sea captain, hence the company’s logo of a ship’s decanter. Records exist of his voyages as far afield as Chile and Australia . The family were also well known breeders of Shropshire sheep and Hereford cattle . It appears that William Tanner was not
1113-828: Is a member of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association , The Bunch, and The Merchant Vintners Company. Port wine Port wine ( Portuguese : vinho do Porto , Portuguese: [ˈviɲu ðu ˈpoɾtu] ; lit. ' wine of Porto ' ), or simply port , is a Portuguese fortified wine produced in the Douro Valley of northern Portugal . It is typically a sweet red wine , often served with dessert , although it also comes in dry, semi-dry, and white varieties. Other port-style fortified wines are produced outside Portugal – in Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, India, Italy, South Africa, Spain, and
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#17327797376971166-431: Is known as "reductive" ageing. This process leads to the wine losing its color very slowly and produces a wine that is smoother on the palate and less tannic. The latter, being matured in wooden barrels, whose permeability allows a small amount of exposure to oxygen, experience what is known as "oxidative" aging. They too lose color, but at a faster pace. They also lose volume to evaporation ( angel's share ), leaving behind
1219-454: Is made entirely from the grapes of a declared vintage year. While it is by far the most renowned type of port, from a volume and revenue standpoint, vintage port accounts for only about two percent of overall port production. Not every year is declared a vintage in the Douro. The decision on whether to declare a vintage is made early in the second year following the harvest. The decision to declare
1272-512: Is not produced in Portugal, in accordance with an agreement with the EU. Colheita port is a single-vintage tawny port aged for at least seven years, with the vintage year on the bottle instead of a category of age (10, 20, etc.). Colheita port should not be confused with a vintage port: a vintage port will spend only about 18 months in barrels after harvest and will continue to mature in bottles, but
1325-499: Is usually blended to match the style of the brand to which it is to be sold. The wine is fined and cold filtered before bottling and does not generally improve with age, although premium rubies are aged in wood from four to six years. Reserve ruby is a premium ruby port approved by the IVDP's tasting panel, the Câmara de Provadores . In 2002 the IVDP prohibited the use of the term "vintage character", as reserve ruby port had neither
1378-550: The Second World War the company moved its head office to its current premises in Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, parts of which date back to the 1490s and are Grade II listed . These were the former premises of Thomas Southam & Sons and the firm operated for some years subsequently as ‘Tanner & Southam’. Before the wine boom of the 1960s Tanners was also a beer wholesaler, bottling ale and minerals on its premises. From
1431-473: The 1880s the company acted as local agents for the Burton -brewed beers of Worthington & Co , latterly part of Bass. Butts of sherry, pipes of Port , hogsheads of claret and burgundy were shipped via London , Bristol or Liverpool and on by rail to Tanners for resting and bottling. Rum arrived in puncheons via Liverpool from Jamaica and Guyana and Irish whiskey was more popular than scotch . Until
1484-525: The 1960s respectable wine merchants had no bottles on show, everything being ordered from wine lists. When Richard Tanner opened Shropshire’s first self-select off licence in 1968 it was called ‘The Wine Centre’ to disassociate it from Tanners. Tanners stopped bottling wines and beers on its own premises in 1976, ending an era of having bottled great wines such as Château Palmer 1961 and Taylor’s Vintage Port 1963 amongst many others. Many artifacts, photographs and equipment are displayed as museum pieces within
1537-461: The 1962 vintage, LBV was being produced in Portugal and bottled as LBV. LBV is intended to provide some of the experience of drinking a vintage port but without the need for lengthy bottle ageing. To a limited extent, it succeeds, as the extra years of oxidative ageing in the barrel does mature the wine more quickly. Unfiltered LBVs are mostly bottled with conventional driven corks and need to be decanted. After decanting they should be consumed within
1590-479: The Douro Superior. Over a hundred varieties of grapes ( castas ) are sanctioned for port production, although only five ( Tinta Barroca , Tinto Cão , Tinta Roriz ( Tempranillo ), Touriga Francesa , and Touriga Nacional ) are widely cultivated and used. Touriga Nacional is widely considered the most desirable port grape but the difficulty in growing it, and the small yields cause Touriga Francesa to be
1643-625: The Rhône, as well as wines from other regions of Europe and the New World. The firm also sells a range of French, German and Portuguese wines, as well as champagne , sparkling wine , Port , sherry , whisky and gin under its own label. Wines can also be purchased en primeur and stored with Tanners. Tanners operates a UK-wide mail order service allowing customers to order wine by the single bottle, or mixed case by email , phone or post from its team of wine advisors. The company also operates
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1696-575: The United States ;– but under the European Union Protected Designation of Origin guidelines, only wines from Portugal are allowed to be labelled "port". Port is produced from grapes grown and processed in the demarcated Douro region. The wine produced is then fortified by the addition of a neutral grape spirit known as aguardente to stop the fermentation , leaving residual sugar in
1749-429: The bottle. It can age as long as vintage ports and are very difficult to identify as LBVs when inserted into blind tastings of vintage ports. The filtered wine has the advantage of being ready to drink without decanting and is usually bottled in a stoppered bottle that can be easily resealed. However, many wine experts feel that this convenience comes at a price and believe that the filtration process strips out much of
1802-640: The buildings. By September 1988, Tanners had opened two "Wine Markets", at Wyle Cop and in Bridgnorth, which featured hundreds of annotated wines. Tanners employs just over 100 people with the majority split between its headquarters in Shrewsbury, and its distribution depot and bonded warehouse in Welshpool , Powys. In addition to a retail outlet in Shrewsbury, a second is found in Welshpool, and
1855-410: The character of the wine. Typically ready to drink when released, filtered LBV ports tend to be lighter-bodied than vintage ports. Filtered LBVs can improve with age, but only to a limited degree. Crusted port is usually a blend of several vintages. Unlike vintage port, which has to be sourced from grapes from a single vintage, crusted port affords the port blender the opportunity to make best use of
1908-467: The leading brand in Portugal is Cálem, which sells 2.6 million bottles annually. Port is produced from grapes grown in the Douro valley. Until 1986 it could only be exported from Portugal from Vila Nova de Gaia near Porto , Portugal's second-largest city. Traditionally, the wine was taken downriver in flat-bottom boats called ' barcos rabelos ', to be processed and stored. In the 1950s and 1960s, several hydroelectric power dams were built along
1961-447: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tanners&oldid=1165203354 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tanners (company) Tanners Wines Ltd (also known as Tanners Wine Merchants or simply Tanners )
2014-530: The most widely planted grape. White ports are produced the same way as red ports, except that they use white grapes – Donzelinho Branco , Esgana-Cão , Folgasão , Gouveio , Malvasia Fina , Rabigato and Viosinho . While a few shippers have experimented with Ports produced from a single variety of grapes, all Ports commercially available are from a blend of different grapes. Since the Phylloxera crisis , most vines are grown on grafted rootstock, with
2067-601: The mouth of the Douro River , where much of the product was brought to market or for export to other countries in Europe. The Douro valley where port wine is produced was defined and established as a protected region, and the name Douro thus an official appellation , in 1756, making it the third oldest wine after Chianti (1716) and Tokaj (1730). The reaches of the valley of the Douro River in northern Portugal have
2120-715: The notable exception of the Nacional area of Quinta do Noval , which, since being planted in 1925, has produced some of the most expensive vintage ports. Grapes grown for port are generally characterized by their small, dense fruit which produces concentrated and long-lasting flavours, suitable for long aging. While the grapes used to produce port made in Portugal are strictly regulated by the Instituto do Vinho do Porto , wines from outside this region that describe themselves as port may be made from other varieties. In 2013, there were 8.7 million cases of port sold, 3.6% less than
2173-717: The only Tanner in the alcohol trade in the mid- to late-1800s. For instance, the Winchester wine merchant partnership between F. A. Roberts and E. Tanner was dissolved in 1886. In 1884 and 1885, published listings for "John Tanner, wine and spirit merchant" as an authorized agent for Southmolton appeared. In 1888, "Messrs. H. and E. Tanner, wine merchants" obtained a license for a new warehouse in Shrewsbury to replace their existing one. Tanners has acquired and incorporated other businesses over time: The original Tanners cellars were underneath Shrewsbury’s Victorian Market Hall (since demolished). When these were requisitioned during
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2226-450: The previous year, at a value of $ 499 million. Port sales have been declining since 2005 and in 2014 were down 16% from that year. In 2023 about 7.2 million cases were sold, with a value of €364 million. Declining sales are attributed by some to increasing prices, due to the increased cost of alcohol used in the production process. Declining sales have also been attributed to the global rise in alcohol levels of table wines. As of 2014,
2279-538: The product that they purchased the abbot's entire lot and shipped it home. Port became very popular in England after the Methuen Treaty of 1703, when merchants were permitted to import it at a low duty, while war with France deprived English wine drinkers of French wine . British importers could be credited for recognising that a smooth, already fortified wine that would appeal to English palates would survive
2332-468: The protected geographic indication. In 1678, a Liverpool wine merchant sent two new representatives to Viana do Castelo , north of Oporto, to learn the wine trade. While on a vacation in the Douro, the two gentlemen visited the Abbot of Lamego, who treated them to a "very agreeable, sweetish and extremely smooth" wine, which had been fortified with a distilled spirit. The two Englishmen were so pleased with
2385-413: The river, ending this traditional conveyance. Currently, the wine is transported from the vineyards by tanker trucks and the barcos rabelos are only used for racing and other displays. Port wine is typically richer, sweeter, heavier, and higher in alcohol content than unfortified wines. This is caused by the addition of distilled grape spirits that fortify the wine, but also halt fermentation before all
2438-663: The rule of the Marquis of Pombal , the Companhia Geral da Agricultura das Vinhas do Alto Douro (C.G.A.V.A.D., also known as the General Company of Viticulture of the Upper Douro or Douro Wine Company ), was founded to guarantee the quality of the product and fair pricing to the end consumer. The C.G.A.V.A.D. was also in charge of regulating which port wine would be for export or internal consumption and managing
2491-402: The second phase of maturation, certain oils may precipitate, causing a film to form across the surface of the glass. Confusingly, the word Garrafeira may also be found on some very old tawny labels, where the contents of the bottle are of exceptional age. White port is made from white grapes, such as Malvasia Fina , Donzelinho , Gouveio , Codega and Rabigato , Taylor introduced Chip Dry,
2544-659: The sugar is converted to alcohol, and results in a wine that is usually 19% to 20% alcohol. Port is commonly served after meals as a dessert wine in English-speaking countries, often with cheese, nuts, or chocolate; white and tawny ports are often served as an apéritif . In continental Europe, all types of ports are frequently consumed as apéritifs. Port from Portugal comes in several styles, which can be divided into two broad categories: wines matured in sealed glass bottles, and wines that have matured in wooden barrels. The former, without exposure to air, experience what
2597-454: The varying characteristics of different vintages. Crusted port is bottled unfiltered and sealed with a driven cork. Like vintage port, it needs to be decanted before drinking. Vintage ports may be aged in barrels or stainless steel for a maximum of two and a half years before bottling, and generally require another 10 to 40 years of aging in the bottle before reaching what is considered a proper drinking age. Since they are potentially aged in
2650-535: The vintage of a single quinta, e.g., the 1996 Dow's Quinta do Bomfim and Taylor's Quinta de Vargellas. Some houses declare their wines in all but the worst years: Quinta do Vesuvio has declared a vintage every year with the exceptions of 1993, 2002, and 2014. Improved wine-making technologies and better weather forecasts during the harvest have increased the number of years in which a vintage can be declared. Although there have been years when only one or two wines have been declared, it has been over thirty years since there
2703-533: The vintage, but one style is fined and filtered before bottling, while the other is not. The accidental origin of late bottled vintage has led to more than one company claiming its invention. The earliest known reference to a style of port with this name in a merchant's list is to be found in The Wine Society's catalogue from 1964, which includes Fonseca's Quinta Milieu 1958, bottled in the UK, also in 1964. By
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#17327797376972756-486: The wine, and to boost the alcohol content . The fortification spirit is sometimes referred to as brandy , but it bears little resemblance to commercial brandies. The wine is then stored and aged , often in barrels stored in a lodge (meaning "cellar") as is the case in Vila Nova de Gaia , before being bottled. The wine received its name, "port", in the latter half of the 17th century from the seaport city of Porto at
2809-431: Was a year with no declarations at all. 2016 was declared a vintage year by most producers, as was 2011. The quality of the grape harvest was attributed to ideal rainfall and temperature. Other recent widely declared vintage years were 2007, 2003, 2000, 1997 and 1994. The wine-producing Douro region is the third oldest protected wine region in the world after Chianti , in 1716, and Tokaj , in 1730. In 1756, during
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